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| Drives that support the ATA-2 and higher are generically referred to as __________. |
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| ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) |
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| What technology was introduced to help deal with IDE devices other than hard drives? |
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| it monitors itself and warns the user during boot-up of any impending failure |
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| What does SMART ( Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology)allow a hard drive to do? |
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| Which revision of the IDE Standard supported transfer rates up to 33 MBps? What was the technology called? |
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| On a SCSI device what must be installed at both ends of the bus to keep the signals "on the bus" |
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| What technique does RAID 0 use? |
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| What technique does RAID 1 use? |
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| Which Raid Class uses parity block as a way of recovering information? |
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| What command-line utility can be used to partition a drive and was primarily used with Operating systems like Windows 98 and Windows 2000? |
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| When dealing with PC's there are 2 types of tools.. what are they? |
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| When dealing with tools for computers .. what tool takes the signal going out over the transmit path and wraps it back over the receive path? |
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| LBA (Logical Block Addressing) |
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| Because of the __________, the size limitation of a hard drive supported in the BIOS was increased from 540MB to 8GB |
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| When 2 or more devices lay claim to the same resource it is known as a __________. |
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| Which of the RAID Classes has no Redundancy? |
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| When setting up a SCSI Drive what is the one thing you have to do that you don't when setting up a IDE Drive? |
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| What does the red Stripe indicate on a ribbon cable? |
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| +3.3VDC, +/- 5VDC , +/- 12VDC |
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| What are the 5 voltages produced by a power supply? |
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| __________ is a solution for drives that exceed 137GB in size. |
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| Most of today's BIOS are written to an ________ and can be updated through software. |
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